JoLynn Self Posted January 2, 2016 Share Posted January 2, 2016 I can not find anything about this tool and what it does. Any help thanks.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dogsoldat Posted January 2, 2016 Share Posted January 2, 2016 Looks like a handled punch. Nice find Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smoggy Posted January 2, 2016 Share Posted January 2, 2016 Where are you JoLynn? I ask as the arrow stamp looks like the British Military Stamp to me, and the name Pardoe seems familiar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ForgeMan32 Posted January 2, 2016 Share Posted January 2, 2016 Looks like a nice hot punch . You don'tsee many old ones like that with a wrapped handle. Most I've seen had a wooden handle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Evans Posted January 2, 2016 Share Posted January 2, 2016 2 hours ago, Smoggy said: Where are you JoLynn? I ask as the arrow stamp looks like the British Military Stamp to me, and the name Pardoe seems familiar. I concur. Basic round punch, ex army. When I first started out I bought quite a few ex British Military tools like that, some wire handles some wooden. Different makers, but all have the date and the same Broad Arrow. Can't remember if any of them were Pardoe. ISTR Brades was on some of mine. Will have a look next week. There were a lot of Military Surplus / junk-and-generally-fascinating-second-hand-engineering-and-other-useful-stuff type emporia around in the 1960s and 70s over here. My two favourites have both now gone and been built on and "improved" by supermarkets. Alan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted January 2, 2016 Share Posted January 2, 2016 I've picked up several Broad Arrow marked tools over the years here in the USA; 2 7# straight peen sledges (one dated in the 40's and the other in the 80's) and I once found a surplus store that had an entire crate of boilermakers' hammers that I gradually bought up and sold on at Quad-State save for the two I saved for my own use. On the punch: is the end of the handle forge welded together like it looks to be? As for use, take a hot piece of steel, rest it on the anvil and place the punch where you want the hole. Strike the punch with a heavy hammer several times and then flip the piece of steel and place the punch over the visible indication of the hole to be and strike it again until a disk of metal pops out and the hole is there. You can then reheat and use the punch to drift the hole larger using the anvils hardy hole, swage block with holes or bottom tool with appropriate hole(s) For use the rust should be removed then the surface smoothed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smoggy Posted January 2, 2016 Share Posted January 2, 2016 You can still buy them with the wire handles, almost, if not identical pattern to the one above. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoLynn Self Posted January 3, 2016 Author Share Posted January 3, 2016 I am in Choctaw county Oklahoma Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Alan Evans Posted January 4, 2016 Share Posted January 4, 2016 I dug out a few of my Broad Arrow marked tools and lo and behold I had a slightly double stamped Pardoe & Co Ltd one. The most amazing one was the 1842 date. I had not realised I had one so old. I thought they were all from the period just before during and after WW2 Alan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J Pardoe Posted May 14, 2020 Share Posted May 14, 2020 Pardoe & Co was my Grandfather's Tool-making business, located in Rowley Regis. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted May 14, 2020 Share Posted May 14, 2020 And what country is Rowley Regis located in? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Evans Posted May 14, 2020 Share Posted May 14, 2020 It is almost surrounded by the formerly heavily industrialised Black Country boroughs to the west of Birmingham but is reckoned to be part of Birmingham. UK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles R. Stevens Posted May 14, 2020 Share Posted May 14, 2020 Down in Grady county myself, Jolynn Small world, isn’t it J? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted May 14, 2020 Share Posted May 14, 2020 Sad to lose those dark satanic mills so beloved of the poets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted May 14, 2020 Share Posted May 14, 2020 3 hours ago, J Pardoe said: Pardoe & Co was my Grandfather's Tool-making business, located in Rowley Regis. Welcome aboard, It's amazing how this forum can bring folks together. I recently conversed with a new member from Slovenia a country that my maternal grandparents came from. I always suggest reading this to get the best out of the forum. READ THIS FIRST It is full of tips like editing your profile to show your location. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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